Posted: 01st Oct, 2004 By: MarkJ
October will see several key Internet giants - AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Earthlink and Comcast - fully adopt the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and or Sender-ID (Microsoft) e-mail identification standards:
"It makes a huge difference on the phishing side," said Dave Anderson, chief executive of e-mail system maker SendMail. "For spammers this breaks the mechanism they have been using."
"The reality is that well north of 90% of spam that's sent never comes from the same address twice," he said. "We really have to change the way we think about this."
"By the end of this year we expect that half of the e-mail sent in the US will have SPF records or some other form of authentication on it," said Mr Anderson.It'll be interesting to see what kind of an impact the new systems have on SPAM, such as whether SPAMMERS will simply shift to other systems. More @
BBC News Online.